On 12 Apr 2012, at 22:27, Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> First order definitely isn't good enough. As long a you insist that > one can't go up in order, just forget about it all. Tell that Meridian, and all their customers who have enjoyed immensely not only listening to horizontal-only 1st order Ambisonics, but also to 1st order horizontal-only Ambisonics crippled by UHJ matrix-encoding constraints. So maybe you should forget about it all, because there are plenty of people who enjoy that which you claim one should forget about. It's these sort of phrases that killed the potential adoption of Ambisonics a few years ago. The nice thing, people keep outing themselves... It's exactly this elitist attitude that keeps the ball from moving. 1st order is thoroughly enjoyable, and were it not for the not-so-smooth DACs maybe some other digital sins that Onkyo did in it's 808 receiver, I'd be a happy camper with that setup, but the sound quality of that device can't compete with a clean stereo amp, so it's surround vs. good sound. Some day, I'll fix that by using an old computer as a processor, and some high-end DAC as converter, and then I'll have the best of both. And I'll still massively prefer UHJ-1st-order-Ambisonics on four speakers over plain stereo. Ronald _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
